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Session 2793

Teaching fluid mechanics with born-again instructional VHS tapes

Bertrand Côté, P. Eng., M.A.Sc.

Associate professor Department of civil engineering Faculty of Engineering Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke, Québec Canada J1K 2R1 bertrand.cote@courrier.usherb.ca

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This paper presents a case study describing why and how VHS instructional tapes were given a new life by reformatting them into numeric files. The tapes were produced in the mid-fifties by the Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research (IIHR) under the apt supervision of Dr. Hunter Rouse. With IIHR's permission, large portions of the tapes were digitized in order to be able to use the excerpts in PowerPoint presentations, where they are more easily put into context with the use of equations, pictures and the like.

Dr. Hunter Rouse

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“This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.” Everybody remembers this famous TV add in which an egg was frying in a pan. Why was it so successful ? Because the movie spoke a thousand words. Simple. For many years, text books on Fluid Mechanics have relied more and more on pictures to illustrate physical phenomena. Unfortunately, pictures are static and are often inadequate to fully describe a physical occurrence of dynamic nature. The famous movie showing the collapse of the Tacoma Bridge (hyperlink1) does just that. This is why instructional courses on film or on tape have always been the ally of the astute professor. At the Université de Sherbrooke (Québec), “Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education”

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Côté, B. (2002, June), Teaching Fluid Mechanics With Born Again Instructional Vhs Tapes Paper presented at 2002 Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada. 10.18260/1-2--10909